INTERNATIONAL LAW AT NYU
and Public Law at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her scholarly work focuses on feminist approaches to international law, and she has published widely on issues related to the international human rights of women. In Spring 2002 Charlesworth taught a seminar on gender and human rights. Professor Radhika Coomaraswamy is concurrently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her scholarship addresses issues such as human rights, minority rights, and constitutional theory in respect to the developing world. In 2003, Coomaraswamy will teach courses on Gender, Ethnicity and the Law, and on International Human Rights of Women. Professor Jürgen Habermas, widely recognized as one of the world’s most important moral philosophers, teaches philosophy at the University of Frankfurt. Periodically, Habermas co-teaches the Colloquium on Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy with Professors Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel. Professor Martti Koskenniemi is a highly respected scholar in international law whose work focuses on legal philosophy and on the history and theory of international law. His book The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2002) is a defining text on the history of international law. Koskenniemi will teach regularly at NYU over the coming decade. He works with Benedict Kingsbury in the Program in Theory and History of International Law. Professor Ratna Kapur, one of India’s leading feminist scholars, is director of the Center for Feminist Legal Research in New Delhi, India. She has co-authored two books, and published numerous articles, reviews and reports addressing feminism in international law from the perspective of women in developing countries. She is expected to teach again at NYU Law in 2003-2004. Professor Joseph Oloka-Onyango is Dean of the law school at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. His scholarship focuses on human rights and justice in international law. In Fall 2002, Oloka-Onyango is teaching two seminars: Globalization and Human Rights, and Human Rights Issues in Africa’s Democratic Transition.
Professor Philippe Sands was a founder of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, and holds a chair at University College, London University. An inaugural member of NYU Law’s Hauser Global Faculty, he has taught seminars on international environmental law, dispute resolution in international law, and European Union law. He codirects the research program in International Conflict in the Regulation of Genetically Modified
Organisms with NYU Professors Dorothy Nelkin and Richard Stewart. Professor Michael Trebilcock, a prominent scholar in the law and economics movement, is based at the University of Toronto. At NYU he teaches the relations between economic, social, and regulatory policy, and international trade law. His book, The Regulation of International Trade (with Robert Howse, 1999), is a leading text in the field. ■
Faculty Activities and Projects European Journal of International Law
American Law Institute Projects on International Law
The European Journal of International Law (EJIL) is of one of the world’s most innovative and influential international law journals. The journal emphasizes the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of international law, seeks to promote and critically analyze the European tradition in the field, and seeks to be at the cutting edge of current controversies in the field of international law. It organizes regular European-U.S. symposia and provides systematic coverage of the relationship between international law and the law of the European Union and its Member States. In addition, it provides indepth coverage of the jurisprudence of major international judicial and quasi-judicial organs including the WTO Appellate Body, the International Court of Justice, and the international criminal tribunals. It also has an extensive and innovative Web site. The journal is published as a collaborative effort between the European University Institute in Florence and the NYU Hauser Global Law Program. EJIL’s Editor-in-Chief since 1996 is NYU Law Professor Philip Alston, who joined the faculty in 2002. NYU Law Professor Joseph Weiler was one of the founders of the EJIL and is active on its editorial board. Both Alston and Weiler are members of the faculty Executive Committee of the Institute for International Law and Justice. The journal’s advisory board includes NYU Law Professor Benedict Kingsbury, and NYU Hauser Global Law Faculty members Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) and Philippe Sands (London).
Professors Andreas Lowenfeld and Linda Silberman are co-reporters for the American Law Institute (ALI) International Jurisdiction and Judgments Project, the aim of which is to develop a federal statute governing the treatment of foreign judgments in United States courts. The project arises from consideration of the proposed draft Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, prepared under the auspices of The Hague Conference on Private International Law. At present there is little uniformity among U.S. courts concerning the circumstances under which a determination of a foreign court will be recognized and enforced in the U.S. Internationally, there is considerable uncertainty about the ways in which courts in one country will interpret and apply decisions from another jurisdiction. National U.S. standards on principles of recognition would ensure uniformity among U.S. courts and would be subject to Supreme Court superintendence. The project confronts important questions concerning the role of the federal government (as opposed to states) with respect to matters of private international law. Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss also leads an ALI project on issues arising from the draft proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. Dreyfuss’ work concerns the impact of the proposed Convention on multinational civil litigation in intellectual property disputes. Dreyfuss is working with two colleagues—Professor Jane Ginsburg (Columbia) and Professor François
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